Text 5] The Meeting of Nanda Maharaja and Vasudeva 323

TRANSLATION

O King, by the passing of time, land and other material posses-
sions are purified; by bathing, the body is purified; and by being
cleansed, unclean things are purified. By purificatory ceremonies,
birth is purified; by austerity, the senses are purified; and by
worship and charity offered to the brahmanas, material posses-
sions are purified. By satisfaction, the mind is purified; and by
self-realization, or Krsna consciousness, the soul is purified.

PURPORT

These are Sastric injunctions concerning how one can purify every-
thing according to Vedic civilization. Unless purified, anything we use
will infect us with contamination. In India five thousand years ago, even
in the villages such as that of Nanda Maharaja, people knew how to
purify things, and thus they enjoyed even material life without
contamination.

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saumarigalya-giro viprah
siita-magadha-vandinah

gayakds ca jagur nedur
bheryo dundubhayo muhuh

saumangalya-girah—whose chanting of mantras and hymns purified
the environment by their vibration; viprah—the braéhmanas; siita—ex-
perts in reciting all the histories; magadha—experts in reciting the
histories of special royal families; vandinah—general professional
reciters; géyakah—singers; ca—as well as; jaguh—chanted; neduh—
vibrated; bheryah—a kind of musical instrument; dundubhayah—a
kind of musical instrument; muhuh—constantly.

TRANSLATION

The brahmanas recited auspicious Vedic hymns, which purified
the environment by their vibration. The experts in reciting old
